SCDNR
South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control

The Condition of South Carolina’s Estuarine and Coastal Habitats During 2001-2002

Below is the Table of Contents for the 2001-2002 SCECAP Report (Adobe PDF - file size 2.3MB). Adobe® Reader® is required to open this file and is available as a free download from the Adobe® Web site.

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Table of Contents

Section Page
1. INTRODUCTION 1
2. METHODS 1
   2.1. Sampling Design 1
   2.2. Water Quality Measurements 2
   2.3. Biological and Sediment Sampling 2
   2.4. Habitat Evaluation 4
   2.5. Quality Assurance 4
   2.6. Data Analyses 4
3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 4
   3.1. Station Array 4
   3.2. Water Quality 5
      Temperature 7
      Salinity 8
      Dissolved Oxygen 9
      pH 10
      Nutrients 12
      Chlorophyll-a 15
      Biochemical Oxygen Demand 18
      Water Column Total Organic Carbon 19
      Fecal Coliform Bacteria 20
      Turbidity 21
      Alkalinity 21
      Integrated Assessment of Water Quality 21
   3.3 Sediment Quality 24
      Sediment Composition 24
      Sediment Total Organic Carbon 25
      Porewater Ammonia 26
      Contaminants 27
      Toxicity 28
      Integrated Assessment of Sediment Quality 28
   3.4 Biological Condition 31
      Phytoplankton 31
      Benthic Communities 33
      Finfish and Crustacean Communities 39
      Contaminant Levels in Fish Tissue 44
   3.5 Incidence of Litter 45
   3.6 Integrated Measures of South Carolina’s Estuarine Habitat Quality 45
   3.7 Non-random Stations 49
   3.8 Summary 51
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 52
LITERATURE CITED 53
APPENDIX 59

Data from this survey period can also be found on the Data Tables page.